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Smart Cities, Volume 2, Issue 2

2019 June - 12 articles

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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,031 Views
17 Pages

Distributed Generations (DGs) have a productive capacity of tens of kilowatts to several megawatts, which are used to produce electrical energy at close proximity to consumers, which of the types of DGs can be named solar cells and Photovoltaics (PVs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,586 Views
21 Pages

The concept of a smart city is becoming the leading paradigm worldwide. Consequently, a creative mix of emerging technologies and open innovation is gradually becoming the defining element of smart city evolution, changing the ways in which city admi...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,502 Views
10 Pages

Policy decisions and urban governance are being influenced by an emergence of data from internet of things (IoT), which forms the backbone of Smart Cities, giving rise to Big Data which is processed and analyzed by Artificial Intelligence models at s...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
15,030 Views
38 Pages

A Methodological Framework for the Selection of Key Performance Indicators to Assess Smart City Solutions

  • Komninos Angelakoglou,
  • Nikos Nikolopoulos,
  • Paraskevi Giourka,
  • Inger-Lise Svensson,
  • Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos,
  • Athanasios Tryferidis and
  • Dimitrios Tzovaras

Smart and sustainable cities are expected to form a cornerstone for achieving resource efficiency and sustainability worldwide. In this specific study we introduce a holistic framework for determining a repository of key performance indicators (KPIs)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,798 Views
14 Pages

In 2006, China lunched its first Digital City initiative to build a national geo-spatial framework. Over the past ten years, 511 county-cities benefited from the national initiative with funding and technical resources channeled from the central gove...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data-Driven Intelligent Services in Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,411 Views
15 Pages

Shared autonomous vehicle systems are anticipated to offer cleaner, safer, and cheaper mobility services when autonomous vehicles are finally implemented on the roads. The evaluation of people’s intentions regarding shared autonomous vehicle se...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Urban Mobility, Transport, and Logistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,326 Views
16 Pages

A Noble Proposal for Internet of Garbage Bins (IoGB)

  • Abdullah Al Jaid Jim,
  • Rafiul Kadir,
  • Md. Abdullah Al Mamun,
  • Abdullah-Al Nahid and
  • Md. Younus Ali

Various technological devices have been developed to meet the ever-increasing demand of today’s cities. Cities, as we can see today, have become highly technology-oriented. However, technological advancement comes at a cost which in this case i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,307 Views
35 Pages

As a new area of science and technology (S&T), big data science and analytics embodies an unprecedentedly transformative power—which is manifested not only in the form of revolutionizing science and transforming knowledge, but also in advancing s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Cities and Data-driven Innovative Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,071 Views
16 Pages

Smartphones are an integral cog of the IoT environment and a fundamental bloc of any related security solution, given that IoT mobile applications allow users not only to get information, but also to influence the environment. This paper presents a m...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things, Computing, and Communications Technologies in Smart Cities)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
51 Citations
13,098 Views
10 Pages

Smart Tourism as a Pillar for Sustainable Urban Development: An Alternate Smart City Strategy from Mauritius

  • Yeshna Jessie Dabeedooal,
  • Vickramsingh Dindoyal,
  • Zaheer Allam and
  • David S. Jones

Mauritius, a small island developing state (SIDS), has an approved government-issued smart city framework geared at facilitating the development of smart cities through an application of Internet of things. In an attempt to move away from privately-o...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Urban Energies and Integrated Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
8,260 Views
18 Pages

22 April 2019

In the era of big data, smart cities have become a promising prospect for governments, citizens, and industrials. Many ideas and their derived systems for smart cities depend on big data for achieving a goal of data intelligence. However, there is an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data-Driven Intelligent Services in Smart Cities)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
9,733 Views
17 Pages

Through the Internet of things (IoT), as promoted by smart cities, there is an emergence of big data accentuating the use of artificial intelligence through various components of urban planning, management, and design. One such system is that of arti...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Urban Energies and Integrated Systems)
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